In October, Become and Voices from Care Cymru published Teachers Who Care, a report looking at teachers' experiences of working with looked-after children in their classrooms.
In our previous report, Perceptions of Care, we asked children in care about their teachers. Only 48 per cent thought that teachers expected children in care to do well at school, and only 24 per cent thought that teachers knew what it was like to be in care.
In Teachers Who Care, 87 per cent of respondents had heard at least one colleague express a negative generalisation about children in care, and 31 per cent of respondents had heard such views often.
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